A person approaches you on the street and asks for directions.While you are talking,two people carry a door between you and the person to whom you are speaking.While the door is passing,the person you are talking to is replaced by a different person.If you are like the people in studies by Simons and Levin,you will ______.
A)immediately notice the change
B)only notice if the two people are of different heights
C)have only about a 50% chance of noticing the switch
D)only notice if the two people have noticeably different voices

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Studies by Simons and Levin have shown that people have only about a 50% chance of noticing when the person they are talking to is switched with another person during a visual interruption, such as a door passing between them. This phenomenon is related to inattentional blindness, where individuals fail to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.

A Person Approaches You on the Street and Asks for Directions.While